Two men were injured yesterday afternoon when shots were fired into a crowd on Lexington Avenue near Bergen Avenue in Jersey City — the same location where a local assemblyman has planned an anti-gun violence rally for tonight.

At least eight rounds were fired around 4 p.m., police said.

A 22-year-old man was shot twice on the right side of his chest and was in stable condition after being worked on for two hours by a trauma team at the Jersey City Medical Center, said Robert Luckritz, director of EMS at the hospital.

The second gunshot victim, a 20-year-old, was shot in his left foot and also was listed in stable condition at the Medical Center.

Witnesses told police that a man opened fire on a crowd of people outside 11-15 Lexington Ave. Eight spent shells were found about 50 feet away at a basement entrance to the four-story, multi-unit apartment building.

The man who was shot in the foot told cops “he did not know anything, just that his foot hurt,” a police report says.

A 26-year-old woman who lives in a basement apartment on Lexington said the shooting occurred 100 feet from her apartment.

“I was scared. I got on the ground with my 4-year-old son,” the woman said. “I came out and I saw people running. We hear gunshots almost every single day.”

A 60-year-old woman added, “People are drinking and doing drugs outside” every day. “You can’t live here anymore,” she said.

Because of a spate of shootings near the intersection, state Assemblyman Charles Mainor, D-Jersey City, had picked the site to launch an anti-gun violence campaign tonight at 6 p.m.

“We have to come together as a community,” Mainor said yesterday. “We are losing the war. We need peace.”

Mayor Steven Fulop is expected to attend the “Peace on Gun Violence” gathering.

Because of the matching shell casings, police believe a lone gunman was responsible for the shooting on Lexington Avenue.
In a separate incident, around 6 p.m. yesterday evening, shots rang out on Ocean Avenue but no injuries were reported.